To:V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH

Published:First published in 1928 in the journalOkiyabrNo. 8.

      Sent from London to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearComrade,

Allthe material received. Thanks. About the fiction, I don’t know yet
whether it will go in. I am thinking of running the item about the
sectarians in the army in No. 33. About the strike in Galicia I can’t say
anything yet: far too long.

Asregards the collection of money (for popular literature) the person
to apply to (as on all administrative questions) is Mr. Leo Alleman
26. Granville Square 26. Kings Cross Road. London W. C. I saw him the other
day and he seemed to agree with me that new subscription lists would be
superfluous. The League already has subscription lists: theyshould be circulated more widely. As for theIskralibrary, that
of course depends on the whole Editorial Board. Take it up with
Plekhanov. I confess I would not be in favour at present. In order to start
a “library” one must have a special person to edit it (whom we do not
have) or a special staff (which we do not have). One should have aselectionof books and pamphlets of like nature (which we do not
have). To stick Kautsky, Thun, etc., into the library would in my view be
artificial in the extreme.

Whatneed is there for a “library”? If there are good pamphlets we
can publish them without a library. In the mean time there are few
pamphlets, andno good translators. (I am having a hard timeredoingtranslations)—why make loudpromisesof a
“library”??

Ifyou manage to findgoodtranslators and select good
material for translation, the undertaking would beveryuseful and
bound to succeed.

Bestregards,Yours,Lenin